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EU widens antitrust probe to include Google ad service

Xinhua, July 14, 2016 Adjust font size:

The European Commission, the European Union's executive arm, on Thursday filed new antitrust charges against Google to include its advertising business, saying it had artificially restricted third-party websites from displaying search advertisements from Google's competitors.

The EU also filed a supplementary statement of objection to reinforce its preliminary charges that Google had abused its dominant position in search engines for online shopping, which the company has eight weeks to respond.

"Google has come up with many innovative products that have made a difference to our lives. But that doesn't give Google the right to deny other companies the chance to compete and innovate," said Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, in-charge of competition policy.

Google has ten weeks to respond to the charges on its ad service. Endit